sinovels #349 - Ask for medicine
#349 - Ask for medicine
These scattered internal energies, having lost the control of the green-clad girl, had become like wild horses, running rampant everywhere. But since they were horses, they naturally had the instinct to graze.
Previously, they couldn't touch the large amount of strange poison within the green-clad girl, but after being scattered by Lu Jing, they were finally able to consume it.
Ding Liu, with one hand constantly on the green-clad girl's pulse, naturally noticed this change immediately and was instantly delighted.
But soon, he frowned again.
In this way, the toxins within the green-clad girl were indeed decreasing, but the internal energies that had swallowed the toxins were constantly growing stronger. And it should be known that these internal energies were still out of control, which, in other words, was the most fatal 'Qi Deviation' in the martial world.
If they were allowed to continue to grow stronger and run rampant in the green-clad girl's meridians, then it was very likely that before the poison was completely removed, she would suffer serious internal injuries.
Seeming to see what Ding Liu was worried about, Lu Jing opened his mouth again, "It's okay, I'll help her gather her true energy later."
"You're going to help her gather her true energy again?" Ding Liu snorted, "Do you really think your internal energy is endless?"
However, after saying this, he finally looked up at Lu Jing standing beside him, and then he was stunned, "It's you!"
"It's me."
Lu Jing nodded.
Ding Liu had a deep impression of Lu Jing, after all, the latter had once refused the medicine he offered. Later, Ding Liu had specifically inquired about Lu Jing's affairs, learning that his martial arts were extremely high, and that he was already a master on the Heavenly Pivot Ranking at a young age, but he was unable to cultivate mystic force, which made him feel a little惋惜 (wǎn xī).
This detoxification didn't require internal energy, but Ding Liu still shook his head and said, "No, you have to help her maintain her life and help her smooth her internal breath. Even a first-rate master can't handle it all. If someone else takes over later, the risk will be very high. My silver needles can only barely save her life, but they can't guarantee that she won't suffer internal injuries. By then, she'll be poisoned again and have internal injuries. Even Da Luo Jinxian (a high-level Taoist immortal) won't be able to save her."
Lu Jing didn't rush to answer, but closed his eyes and carefully felt the scattered internal energies within the green-clad girl's body. Only then did he open his eyes and say to Ding Liu, "Half of my internal energy definitely won't work, but if I use all of my internal energy, I should have a 70-80% chance of success."
"You really have a 70-80% chance of success?" Ding Liu stroked his beard, somewhat disbelieving, "If you really have more than 70% certainty, it's naturally worth a try, because according to my previous idea, I only had a 20-30% chance of saving her."
"I do."
Lu Jing had actually said 70-80% only to avoid scaring Ding Liu. In reality, he was almost 100% certain, otherwise, he wouldn't have suggested doing so.
The reason was very simple—he had two bars of blue (mana).
Calculating it, in another four hours, Lu Jing's internal energy would be refreshed, and he would become energetic again.
However, there were also troubles. Even if Lu Jing didn't sleep now, he only had four hours of usable time each day. If he exceeded this time, Lu Jing would face the problem of mystic force overflow.
Therefore, after Ding Liu told him to go all out, Lu Jing didn't continue to stir up the toxins in the green-clad girl's body. Instead, he gathered his internal energy back to her heart meridian, trying to maintain her life first.
Then, he made a sword gesture with his left hand and closed his eyes.
"What are you doing?" Ding Liu was a little strange.
"Seeing if I can multitask," Lu Jing replied.
Simply helping the green-clad girl maintain her life didn't require him to expend much energy. He just needed to control the output of internal energy, which was basically assembly-line work. After trying it a few more times, he should be able to succeed.
This way, he could concentrate his mind on the upper dantian and continue practicing the Sword Control Technique, which would buy him more time.
"There was such a thing," Ding Liu nodded, "But you can't cultivate mystic force, can you? Or are you planning to get some to please your sweetheart? Hmm... if that's the case, I might be able to give you some."
Ding Liu had also cultivated some mystic force after entering the academy, but only for refining pills. He hadn't seen that Lu Jing was making the sword gesture for the Sword Control Technique. In fact, because there were too few people practicing the Sword Control Technique, most people wouldn't think of it.
Lu Jing shook his head upon hearing this, "I don't want it. I just want to ask you, from a pharmacological point of view, is it possible to refine a pill that constantly consumes mystic force?"
"What do you want such a vicious pill for?" Ding Liu was shocked upon hearing this, and then, as if thinking of something, he pointed at the green-clad girl on the bed and advised, "I know you were very close to her before, and you must have been influenced a lot by seeing her playing with poisons all day long.
"But look at her current situation. If she hadn't been discovered by someone passing by, you could already be considering where to set up her mourning hall. Poison is something that shouldn't exist in the world from the beginning. It has no use other than harming people, and if you deal with those poisons every day, you will eventually make a mistake and end up harming yourself."
Ding Liu spoke earnestly, but Lu Jing didn't quite agree.
How could poison be useless? If it weren't for poison, would he be living well now? He would have been driven crazy by the infinite refreshing of internal energy long ago.
And the first solution he thought of when his mystic force encountered trouble was also poison. But unlike the Jianghu martial world, all cultivators in the world came from the Department of Celestial Observation, accepting the unified dispatch and management of the Department of Celestial Observation, and had a common enemy, which were those strange things that brought trouble to the human world.
Therefore, they rarely killed each other. Moreover, there had never been a freak like Lu Jing with frantically refreshing mystic force, and there had never been a demand for pills that consumed mystic force, so naturally, there were no similar pill formulas left.
Lu Jing had also confirmed this after flipping through the books in the library, and he couldn't help but be very disappointed. This time, he ran into Ding Liu in Mirror Lake Valley, and remembering that the latter's alchemy skills seemed to be very powerful, he asked, hoping to get lucky.
"It's nothing. I just want to know if it's pharmacologically feasible."
Ding Liu pondered for a long time upon hearing this, and then reluctantly said, "Everything in this world is always mutually reinforcing and restraining. Since there are immortal pills that can enhance mystic force, then from a pharmacological point of view, there will naturally be poisons that can make people lose their mystic force."